Hi Grant, think that you will get much better integrated packages (for very lean systems) with openwrt (if gentoo has an embedded distro - it might not be a huge difference) - openwrt has a reasonable package manager, and the fire / forget mentality will work here reasonably well (as long as you are looking for vanilla router / AP setup).
Openwrt on an asus has required about 2-4 hours for me to learn the distro (depending on your experience / selection of h/w) - and it take another couple of hours to get the setttings where you want i.e. qos DNS firewall "other services" It is ROCK solid after that. I run 3 instances of openwrt - 2 virtual and 1 physical (for wireless) - and it (tm) just works. -Adrian On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Grant <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm very familiar and comfortable with Gentoo Linux and I've set up > several router/firewall/AP Gentoo systems. I need to move my internet > connection across the room wirelessly so I thought I would buy a > TP-Link router and set up OpenWRT instead of building and maintaining > another Gentoo system. I'm wondering if I've made the wrong choice > and I would appreciate your advice. > > Should I stick with a distro I know or learn OpenWRT? I chose Gentoo > as my distro many years ago because its flexible and I want to avoid > learning multiple distros. On the other hand, each Gentoo system I > administrate costs time and energy dealing with both software and > hardware problems. Am I better off with those problems or with the > problem of learning and maintaining my knowledge of another distro > just for a router? > > - Grant > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users > _______________________________________________ openwrt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users
